This is a book of essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero (as both orator and letter-writer) Catullus Lucretius Propertius Horace''s Odes Virgil''s Aeneid Ovid''s Metamorphoses Senecan tragedy Persius Pliny''s letters Tacitus'' Annals and medieval love lyric.